Amanda bernhardt



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMANDA BERNHARDT, QF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

fDETERGENT.

PECIFIGATIO N forming part of Letters Patent No. 620,407, dated February28, 1899.

Application filed April 5 j 1898- Serial No. 676,550. (No specimena Toall whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMANDA BERNHARDT, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State ofNew York, have invented a certain new and useful Washing Compound, ofwhich the following is a full and complete specifica tion, such as willenable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to washing compounds; and it has for its objectto provide an improved compound of this character which will beespecially adapted for effective use in washing and cleansing clothes,which will ob= viate the labor of rubbing and which will im= part anextreme whiteness to the clothes with out exercising any deleteriouseffect upon the fabric.

My improved compound consists of the following ingredients combined inthe proportions specified: lye, one per cent; mineral oil,six-sixteenths of one 'per cent; bluing, three-sixteenths of one percent; paraffinwax, ninety-eight and seven-sixteenths of one per cent.

In compounding the above ingredients the paraffin is melted by heatingin a suitable vessel. The lye, oil, and bluing are thoroughly intermixedin a suitable vessel by stirring or agitating in any suitable manner,the oil being first placed in the vessel as a base and the lye andbluing afterward poured ontothe oil during the process of interinixingand agitating. The mass of intermixed lye, oil, and bluing is thenpoured onto the dissolved par affin and the whole is thoroughlyintermixed by stirring or agitating in any suitable manner. The compoundmay be then poured into suitable molds, in which it will solidify as itcools.

In use a tablespoonful of the compound is simply placed in the waterwith a bar of wash-- ing-soap of ordinary or standard size, when thecompound will dissolve and act upon the clothes to thoroughly cleanseand whiten the same.

The molded block of compound may be simply scraped or shaved to producethe table spoonful or other proportionate quantity desired for use.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1 An improved compound for use in washing clothes,consisting of lye, oil, bluing, and paraflin,compounded substantiallyinthe proportions set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 4th day of-April,1898.

AMANDA BERNHARDT.

Witnesses:

L. M. MULLER, M. A. KNOWLES.

